New Study Shows That Pain Costs Billions of Dollars a Year in U.S.
By Salynn Boyles WebMD Health News – June 29, 2011, Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD
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An IOM committee commissioned by Congress concluded that pain is not optimally managed in the U.S. and that effective treatment of chronic pain will require a coordinated national effort to transform how the public, policy makers, and health care providers view the condition.
"We see that for many patients chronic pain becomes a disease in its own right," committee chair Phillip Pizzo, MD, of Stanford University School of Medicine, said at a Wednesday news briefing. "We need to address this in a more comprehensive and interdisciplinary way and include prevention as a very important goal."
Committee member Sean Mackey, MD, PhD, noted that about a third of the population is affected by chronic pain — more people than are affected by heart disease, diabetes, and cancer combined — yet very little is spent on research to find better ways to manage pain.
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CLICK HERE for IoM site on chronic pain
- List of committee members
- Unable to find the 1000+ comments that were supposed to be there
Some items in the report
VitaminDWiki notices that the majority of the types of pain are reduced by adding vitamin D
would be nice to add links to the areas on the wiki - but do not have time
Common sources of acute pain - pg 42
- infectious diseases (e.g., food poisoning with related gastrointestinal manifestations),
- wound infections,
- untreated dental conditions,
- burns,
- trauma (broken bones, lacerations and other wounds),
- appendicitis,
- surgery,
- medical procedures, and
- childbirth.
Common sources of chronic pain - pg 42
- migraine and other serious headaches,
- arthritis and other joint pain,
- fibromyalgia,
- irritable bowel syndrome, x chronic interstitial cystitis,
- trauma or postsurgical pain,
- low back pain,
- other musculoskeletal disorders,
- temporomandibular joint disorder,
- shingles,
- sickle cell disease,
- heart disease (angina),
- cancer,
- stroke, and
- diabetes.
The 300+ page report which is attached to the bottom of this page does not once contain the word VITAMIN
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See also VitaminDWiki
- Many kinds of pain relieved by vitamin D VitaminDWIki Blog Feb 2012
- All items in Chronic Pain and Vitamin D
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- Overview: Fibromyalgia or Chronic Fatigue and vitamin D
- Vitamin D and chronic widespread pain
- Tenuous link between vitamin D and chronic pain - April 2009
- Back pain reduced for 95 percent of those who took vitamin D - 2003 file, not web page
"only" 95% of the people with back pain were helped with vitamin D 5,000 IU or 10,000 IU daily- More likely to have Chronic Widespread Pain when have less than 15 ng – May 2010
- Leg pain 7X more prevalent when vitamin D lower than 20 ng – Oct 2010
- Patients like me survey found vitamin D to be number one supplement - across ALL problems
- Low vitamin D associated with chronic widespread pain for women
- More Arab leg pain when less than 20 ng of vitamin D – Aug 2010
- Vitamin D reduces pain – such as from Menstral Cramps – Feb 2012
- Blacks had lower vitamin D and more quantifiable pain than whites with knee osteoarthritis – Nov 2012
- Global Burden of Disease - Dec 2012
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